Professor Ford, a classical product of the Affirmative Action era (Stanford BA '88, Harvard JD '91, on the Stanford faculty three years after Law school, concentrating on the racial spoils field) specializes in mannered and nuanced discussions of racial matters, in a style rather like Steve Sailer’s description of Obama’s writing.

This is entirely appropriate because his message is the same. Civil Rights legislation is exclusively about benefiting Blacks. Whites need not apply.

As a law professor, for me nothing is more depressing than listening to an otherwise sensible and intelligent student insist that he can see no difference between Jim Crow segregation and an affirmative action policy (this is a the fundamental mistake underlying the Court’s affirmative action jurisprudence).

(Hint as to difference: Affirmative action benefits Blacks. Jim Crow laws were intended to be good for Whites.)